... through to Watergate - and beyond. Vol. 2 no. 3, for example is a special edition on Watergate. But it includes a piece on Alger Hiss - who launched Nixon's career. (The fact that I didn't catch up with Probe until vol. 3 no. 2 tells you have far I am from being a serious JFK buff.) The problem with the JFK thing is that it has now ramified so far - and as the material in this issue, the Scott extract and Frewin's literature survey, shows, is ramifying further and further - it is very hard to keep track of. For example: the leading (ten page) article in Probe ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 35) Summer 1998 Last | Contents | Next Issue 35 Assassination Science: Experts Speak Out On the Death of JFK Edited by James H. Fetzer Catfeet Press, Chicago Distributed in the UK by The Eurospan Group, 3 Henrietta St, London WC2E 8LU at 29.50 (hb) 14.95 (pb) This is a very important contribution to the primary research on the Kennedy assassination. It contains essays which prove (a ) that the Zapruder film was substantially edited and cannot be taken as anything like a real record of the event, and (b ) that the autopsy X ...

... The President and the Provocateur The parallel lives of JFK and Lee Harvey Oswald Alex Cox Harpenden (UK); Oldcastle Books, 2013, £12.99, p/b T his is Alex Cox's take on the Kennedy assassination; and 'take' is apposite because this is Alex Cox the filmmaker1 and occasional contributor to these columns. Cox presents two parallel narratives, the lives of JFK and Oswald from 1960 until their deaths in Dallas, intercut with the politics (and parapolitics), domestic and international, of the time. This creates a striking effect, which is difficult to quite put a finger on. The macro/micro contrast between Oswald's strange life, ...

... were Anthony Frewin The Oswald Code Alan Jules Weberman New York: Independent Research Associates, 2014, 300 pps. Illustrations, notes, index, $17.00 (amazon) Alan Jules Weberman or, more familiarly, A J Weberman, is widely known as a garbologist, Dylanologist, and as the author of a book on the JFK assassination.1 The main title page has a photograph captioned in caps THE AUTHOR SUMMER 1963 HITCHING TO THE YUCATAN. Just why this photo is positioned so prominently here and its significance are unexplained. Could it be that the author wanted to prove he was actually about in the year that JFK was assassinated, and therefore qualified to write ...

... lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 50) Winter 2005/6 Last | Contents | Next Issue 50 The Zapruder Film: Reframing JFK's Assassination David W. Wrone University Press of Kansas; 2003, h/b , $29.99 (UK prices vary) Garrick Alder In the conclusion to his Pocket Essentials Who Shot JFK?, the editor of this journal asked: 'Where are the historians? ' David Wrone is a former Professor of History at Kansas University, and so his book provides at least part of an answer. A confirmed conspiracist on the JFK shooting, Wrone has no qualms about saying so partly because he is able to back up what ...

... The President's Mortician Tim Fleming Neverland Publishing, 2013, p/b www.neverlandpublishing.com/tpm.html The publication of Tim Fleming's book marks, to my knowledge, the first real attempt to (forgive the phrase) put flesh on the biographical bones of John Melvin Liggett, a shadowy character whose apparent connections to the JFK assassination are discussed in my own 'Doubles and Disinformation' in this issue of Lobster. There is good news and bad news about this book. The bad news is that, despite the author's first-hand research into Liggett's life, his book is so heavily fictionalised as to count as a novel. The good news is that it's ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 27) June 1994 Last | Contents | Next Issue 27 The Last Investigation Gaeton Fonzi Thunder's Mouth Press, New York, 1993 Deep Politics and the Death of JFK Peter Dale Scott University of California Press London and Berkeley, 1993 With Dick Russell's The Man Who Knew Too Much, reviewed above by Alex Cox, these books are the best of the post Oliver Stone wave that I am aware of. Fonzi, early in the JFK assassination field as a journalist in Philadelphia, was hired in 1976 to work for Senator Schweiker's assassination sub-committtee of the Church Committee. The disinformation mills set to ...

... (c ) www.lobster-magazine.co.uk (Issue 51) Summer 2006 Last | Contents | Next Issue 51 Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the murder of JFK Lamar Waldron with Thom Hartmann New York: Carroll and Graf, 2005, h/b , $33.00 <www.ultimatesacrificethebook.com> There is 900 pages of this, in the first 250 or so of which the authors demonstrate that there was a Kennedy brothers plan to create an internal coup in Cuba, which was set to go on 1 December 1963. They offer a sequence in which, having rejected ...

... within hours afterwards, if anything like that would happen. Just to throw the public off. What Milteer says here has largely been interpreted by the critical community as advance knowledge of the assassination, but is it? A less widely reproduced part of the tape has Milteer saying a sharp shooter in a hotel overlooking the White House could pick JFK off in the garden, and he even names a possible assassin, a Jack Brown (who he?). Had Milteer described some unique way of killing JFK and had that transpired, then his statement would have carried some weight, but it doesn't. He suggests instead what must be one of the most obvious ways of getting ...

... some of the electorate -- 0.01 % maybe - are finally asking some questions. Steamshovel Press An interesting manifestation of this explosion is the magazine Steamshovel Press. Now up to number 7, and appearing quarterly, Steamshovel is 60 pages. I have 5, 6 and 7. Number 5, Summer 92, has interviews about JFK (and JFK) with Mark Lane, Dick Gregory, Kerry Thornley and Jim Marrs; a piece on alternative AIDS cures; pieces titled 'KKK, GOP and CIA' and 'An American Nazi and Ozark tourism' that are too obstruse to summarise here; a piece by the ubiquitous Robert Anton Wilson; and 'Supermarket Tabloids and UFOs' ...